[DB-SIG] checking column types from cursor object in a database-independent way?

[Dan Lenski]

Vernon D. Cole <vernondcole <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Dan: 
> You have a very good point.  Perhaps we should put that on the wish list for 
API version 3.
> The .connection attribute of the cursor is optional.  IMHO it should be 
required..  I think most existing api packages implement it.
> The it is suggested, but not required by the PEP, that the exception classes 
"should be
> exposed on the Connection objects as attributes (in addition to
> being available at module scope)." Adding them to the class definition for 
Connection is not difficult, and is quite convenient to use.  I don't like the 
extra symbols in my debugger, but I can live with it.  It would be trivial to 
include the type objects and constructors there, too.  Again, perhaps this 
should be required.

Great, I do think it'd be a useful feature for v3!

I don't know enough about the design goals of DBAPI to say whether the 
connection object is the *right* place to expose the column type objects, but 
it does seem like that would be a straightforward solution to the problem, as 
long as .connection is guaranteed to exist.

  if cur.description[n][1] == cur.connection.STRING:
    pass